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Wide-range of weather, fieldwork conditions on the Plains
Across the Corn Belt, scattered showers are slowing the previously torrid pace of summer crop planting. Among the Midwestern States, only Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio failed to plant at least one-third of the intended corn acreage during the week ending May 3. Iowa led the nation with 54% of its corn planted during the week.
On the Plains, warm, dry weather in Montana and the Dakotas contrasts with wet conditions farther south. In South Dakota, where 39% of the winter wheat was rated very poor to poor on May 3, topsoil moisture was categorized as 74% very short to short. In contrast, rain is causing local flooding and fieldwork delays on the southern High Plains, despite the benefit to rangeland, pastures, and winter wheat.
In the South, rain showers are returning to parts of southern Florida. Elsewhere, warm, dry weather continues to promote summer crop planting and other fieldwork. During the week ending May 3, more than one-third (34%) of Tennessee’s corn and Missouri’s rice was planted.
In the West, scattered showers dot the Pacific Northwest and the Four Corners States. Generally cool, dry weather covers the remainder of the region, including California.
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